Last Updated on January 22, 2023

A Virginia teenager became the victim of multiple sex traffickers after she was groomed into transgenderism by the public school system in Appomattox County, where she began identifying as a boy because “everybody was doing it.”

The 15-year-old girl, whose name is reported only as “Sage,” began identifying as a boy due to peer pressure at school, saying in retrospect that she’d never actually wanted to be a boy, but that “everybody was doing it.”

Under the left-wing policies embraced by school districts all over the country, even those in supposedly conservative areas like Appomattox County, Virginia, school officials hid the claims of transgenderism from the girls’ parents, kicking off a sequence of events that led to her being sex trafficked in multiple states as the left-wing court system fought to keep her away from her family and under the control of LGBT ideology.

When she “ran away” from home and ended up in Baltimore, Maryland, being sex trafficked by a registered sex offender, the Maryland court system then took her from her family – something most people would consider kidnapping – and forced her to live in an innercity group home.

Their reasoning was that Sage, at the time, “identified” as a transgender boy, and her conservative family back in Appomattox County, Virginia just didn’t get it.

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Despite the court-ordained narrative that Sage had run away from home to escape her conservative family, the teenage girl didn’t really run away at all.

When she left her home in Appomattox, she thought she was meeting up with a 16-year-old boy, only to fall into the hands of a 36-year-old sex trafficker who, over the course of the 9 days he had her in his grasp, brutally raped Sage multiple times. He enjoyed choking her nearly to the point of death over and over again during the rapes, and pimped her out to so many men that she “lost count.”

She was only 14.

Nevertheless, the left-wing Maryland court system didn’t care and kept their gender ideology at the center of Sage’s case.

“It is not possible to return the child to that home,” Judge Robert B. Kershaw, of Maryland, wrote in his opinion, handing Sage over to the City of Baltimore, “for placement in a hardware secure therapeutic facility which makes reasonable accommodation for Respondent’s expressed male gender and desire to live as a trans male.”

In other words, Judge Robert B. Kershaw took the child from her family and rendered her into state custody, so that she could be turned into a “trans boy.”

Months later, and after being bounced around a couple of Maryland facilities, Sage ran away again, believing that she was meeting up with a 16-year-old boy and making her way to Texas where she was once again brutally sex trafficked.

Finally, she was recused in Dallas, Texas in 2022 after her family discovered tips about her location on social media.

The entire saga, between Sage being kidnapped in Virginia and taken to Maryland, where she was kidnapped by the left-wing Maryland court system before running away and being kidnapped again, then being recovered in Texas, lasted from August 2021 to January 2022.

After her January 2022 rescue, Sage was forced to live in a secure mental health facility in Virginia, where she was still being treated like a “trans boy” and told her mother that she was scared to tell the doctors that she wasn’t trans.

After court battles, she’s now back with her family, living as a girl, and getting the help that she needs to heal from such a traumatic experience while sharing her story so that it doesn’t happen to others.

Virginia Delegate Dave LaRock has introduced Sage’s Law, also known as the Child Protection Act, which requires schools to inform parents if their children begin claiming a gender other than the one they’re born as, in Sage’s honor.

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